On 30 Oct 2014, at 13:23, Steven Hartland <killing_at_multiplay.co.uk> wrote: > Making things harder to manage vs saving a little bit of space on the > root partition really doesn't sound like a good idea; especially when > with the ZFS install, which I would suggest is becoming the norm, the > root partition doesn't suffer from space issues anyway. Note that it’s not “a little bit” of space. [freebsd10 8:21] /boot/kernel >ll kernel *.ko| awk '{i += $5} END {print $5}' 49312 [freebsd10 8:21] /boot/kernel >ll *.symbols | awk '{i += $5} END {print $5}’ 212464 i.e. the debug information is more than 4x larger than the code its for (!). I agree managing the symbol files does become significantly more difficult in this case but the patch makes quite a substantial difference to the number of kernels you can keep in / (especially on older installs which have <1GB roots). Perhaps there could be a flag to disable it just for the kernel that could be put into /etc/make.conf? That way it’s set and forget if you are kernel juggling. Regards, Daniel O’Connor Senior Software Engineer Isilon Platforms TeamReceived on Thu Oct 30 2014 - 07:25:29 UTC
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